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Old 01-Jul-2006, 20:55
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Default Re: head to the beach

It's not really an idiom -- in this sense "to head" indicates purposeful movement towards a goal. "Stocks head to the beach" means that stocks (I can only guess what the article is about) have set off with the intention of getting to the beach.

Still, I think it would be more usual to say "head towards" or "head for", but the meaning is clear.
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